Asking the Right Questions: A Guide for College and University Trustees - Couverture souple

Dickmeyer, Nathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1482640503 ISBN 13 : 9781482640502

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

This book is intended to assist board members who may be new to higher education trusteeship in shaping their questions and to help administrators prepare responsive and useful answers on topics “across the waterfront” of a modern college or university. The questions in this book are most directly intended for independent universities and colleges (though many would apply equally at public institutions). The questions do not spring from assumptions that administrations intend to mislead trustees or that trustees intend to manage or administer institutions. Nevertheless, as public trust guardians and financial fiduciaries, trustees are required to ensure that assets are not squandered, that purposes are achieved, and that public and private investments in these trusts are put to use with care and efficiency. A trustee can fulfill his or her responsibilities by understanding and perhaps shaping the mission of this public trust, by evaluating the success of the institution against its mission, by comparing the trustee’s own organizational performance standards with the performance of this institution, and by shaping the direction of change in the college or university so that it points toward mission fulfillment and performance excellence. The varying plans being carried out at any given institution describe its intended direction of change, the degree of this change, and its strategies for implementing the planned change. The burden of failure falls on trustees if the direction of change harms the institution, the implementation is ill-conceived and fails, or evaluations are too weakly formed to reveal whether the change produced any benefits. This book strives to delve below the broad lists of trustee responsibilities, below the commonly prescribed and often superficial questions, to the specific inquiries that allow boards to judge whether the institution is being well administered.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1482640503
• ISBN 13: 9781482640502
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 124
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